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angevin
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Angevin \Angevin\ n. a resident of Anjou.
Syn: Angevine
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1650s, "pertaining to the French province of Anjou," from French Angevin, from Medieval Latin Andegavinus, from Andegavum "Angers," city in France, capital of Anjou (Latin Andegavia, from Andecavi, Roman name of the Gaulish people who lived here, which is of unknown origin). In English history, of the Plantagenet kings (beginning with Henry II) who were descended from Geoffrey, count of Anjou, and Matilda, daughter of Henry I.
Wikipedia
Angevin or House of Anjou may refer to:
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Anjou, a historic province in western France
- Angevin (language), the traditional langue d'oïl spoken in Anjou
- House of Ingelger, a Frankish noble family who were counts of Anjou between the 10th and 12th centuries
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Angevin kings of England, members of the House of Anjou who occupied the English throne in the 12th and early 13th centuries
- Angevin Empire, the assemblage of territories in Britain and France ruled by the Angevin kings of England
- Angevin Kings of Jerusalem, members of the House of Anjou who occupied the throne of the Kingdom of Jerusalem in the 12th century, relatives of the Angevin kings of England
- Capetian House of Anjou, a cadet branch of the Capetian dynasty of France, members of which became kings of Sicily, Naples, Hungary and Poland from the 13th to the 15th century
- House of Valois-Anjou, a cadet branch of the French house of Valois, which ruled Naples and held territories such as Anjou, Maine, Piedmont and Provence in the 14th and 15th centuries
Usage examples of "angevin".
Capets and the Plantagenets that agitated the whole period and culminated in the collapse of the Angevin empire.
He was at the moment watching with apprehensive eye the growing Angevin pretensions in Normandy, which lay athwart both his own lands and those of the late Count Guillaume.
Queen Melisende was there, that valiant half-Oriental woman with the sap of the first crusaders in her veins, and her son, the boy king Baldwin, scion of the late Angevin King Foulques.
Henry was away and Matilda Empress kept her own establishments in Rouen, it devolved upon the Duchess Eleanor to set up centers of civility in the West befitting the new Angevin dynasty whose prospects at this time rose so fair as to cast a shadow over the Ile itself.
A magnificent, an unforeseen destiny now engrossed him, a destiny owed not wholly to his own merit nor to Angevin contrivance, but also to some happy conjunction of the planets.
For such labors the young Angevin had not only the ability of his race, but he had had an unusually varied experience and the most astute of teachers.
And in the meantime, with a perversity to confound the Franks, she secured the future of the Angevin empire and supplied the instruments of a diplomacy which, no less than force of arms, was to solidify the whole.
THE QUEEN AND HER COURTIERS, left somewhat to their own devices, were teaching London to emulate the most famous centers of civility in Christendom, Henry, chiefly abroad, was occupied with Angevin problems of another sort.
In the face of Frankish fear and hatred of the Plantagenets, the coup could not be managed with sheer Angevin bluntness nor Capetian naivett.
He returned to Paris laden with gifts and the most agreeable impression of the Angevin good will and generosity.
Then, as the season of winter put a term to war, the King and Queen of the English withdrew well within their own frontiers with the heir of England and the Princess of France and a goodly company of nobles to keep the time of Advent in the seat of the Angevin counts in Le Mans.
The Angevin, who above all things liked to count and consolidate his gains in conflict, foresaw a long train of inconclusive aggressions and reprisals between church and state in which his arm, however powerful, could not effectively come at the ghostly armor of his antagonist.
If, in his agitation, Henry remembered Rome, he was perhaps not very much alarmed by the specter of Pope Alexander, who had lately besought Angevin support to gain the throne of Saint Peter, and who had only just ventured back to his temporalities from his long exile in Provence.
He passed into the audience chamber to face the Angevin whom his predecessor Thibault had given him to curb and admonish.
Canterbury found respite and relief at last from the fury of the Angevin in the citadels of the pious King of the Franks.